1931 Gladiator
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13 years 7 monthsI get to go look around a bit for this one. I remember discussion about two-tone vs all white, and dress dial of your watch vs radium dial in a couple Gladiator ads..but you've probably already done that :)
In the full ad used, there are two watches (Sky King & Kirkwood) pictured with two-tone graphics, so they could have shown the Gladiator as two-tone in that ad.
Here's another (blurry) ad below. Can't make out the text. http://www.mybulova.com/sites/default/files/vintage_ads/1930-AD9-(Sept-…
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And another two-tick Gladiator w/ discussion about several points in ID. Note the engraving on this other watch is slightly different than engraving on subject watch. (flowers vx fish - or some such descriptors).
...but in the end...I'm probably gonna vote tentative Gladiator since we don't have another ad suggesting these minor differences may be ID'ed as anything else....
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12 years 10 monthsThis is a fabulous watch, I love it! It does however present a certain challenge for us. We currently have three Gladiators in the dB and they're each different. This watch does not match the ad, in fact it doesn't match any of the three we already have.. The engraving is completely different as well as the dial, although I could overlook the dial if the engraved pattern matched. Interestingly enough, one of the three matches this pattern but is all white - not two tone.
I'll do more research tomorrow, for now it's Unknown (but I still want it!)
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10 years 3 monthsIn reply to This is a fabulous watch, I by Geoff Baker
These watches have the same design as those in Lisa db
http://www.watchophilia.com/photogallery/bulovas-1930-1939/a1930-gladiator/#!